Word: intellections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in the many years that I have been a reader of TIME I regret the anonymity of your writers. ... It requires an intellect outstandingly brilliant and out standingly self-reliant to be able and daring enough to sum up the lifelong teaching of "America's Greatest Philosopher" [John Dewey] with a statement at the same time devastating and so unobtrusive that most readers will pass it by: "exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher" [TIME...
...amazed that there are 500 followers of "Silo Charlie" [TIME, Feb. 13] with sufficient intellect to read and understand TIME...
Brisbanian were the sharply noted details, but not the long words and generally gloomy tone. That does not worry Seward Brisbane. Says he: "Pop killed himself doing work with which I was wholly unsympathetic. . . . We had lots of fights. . . . If it hadn't been for grandfather's intellect, Pop might have been a buccaneer...
Arrival of this thinker pointed the fact that U. S. theological Modernists (counterparts of ideological Liberals) are at last awaking to the essential weakness of their position: they have based their theology on emotion rather than intellect, have sought truth with their nerves rather than with their minds...
...assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland's Mount Tabor Park, with one arm stretched toward the city centre...